Simon Ekpa, a popular pro-Biafra separatist agitator in Finland, was arrested on Thursday.
According to HS, a Finnish news outlet, the separatist was led out of his apartment in Lahti by police.
The platform said that they went to Ekpa’s house for an interview, but when the HS team rang the separatist ring, the Finland police, KRP, replied.
The HS reported the KRP barred their team from entering Ekpa’s flat and said that the interview will be moved “to the future”.
On Thursday, an official from the Finnish Embassy in Abuja who requested anonymity confirmed Ekpa’s detention to ANAEDOONLINE.NG.
“It is our understanding that he is currently in police custody in Finland,” the official who is not authorised to speak to the press told ANAEDOONLINE.NG.
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“According to information available to us, the image is verified by Helsingin Sanomat, a Finnish newspaper; in it, Ekpa is seen being escorted out of his home in Lahti by plainclothes Finnish police”, the official volunteered.
Before his eventual arrest on Thursday, Nigerians all over the world have signed a petition appealing to the Finnish government, Nigerian Government and the European Union to arrest Ekpa, the brain behind the sit-at-home order in the South-East.
Ekpa, a self-acclaimed disciple of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, in had repeatedly ordered the people of the South-East to observe a sit-at-home and asked them to boycott the country’s general elections billed for Saturday.
His repeated sit-at-home order has been marked by bloodshed and destruction of lives and properties in the region by its enforcers.
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